(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)
Honor Club program at school – Letter from Ty-Ty saying Dad is OK. Got a permanent for $3.50* at Daniel’s. Was there from a little after 4PM until after 7. It was worth it.
*$3.50 is the same as $60.79 today
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:
The Helena earthquake occurred in Montana killing 4 people.
The German cabinet convened in Berlin for its first fall session and promulgated a new law forbidding marriage in the case of either party having a hereditary disease.
The official publication of the Nuremberg Laws was postponed due to fears of an international boycott of the 1936 Summer Olympics if they went into effect beforehand.
In the port of Alexandria, two boiler explosions on the Italian liner Ausonia killed 6 and injured 20.
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